NM is configured to bring up wireless when someone logs in, so that
wouldn't work. but by sheer chance I had previously configured the
wired network to come up on boot, so I could log in via ssh to
poke around.
By editing your grub cmd which you can do regardless of network config
and telling it to boot into something other than "5" will help in the
future.
I'd love to get rid of the user list. (one wonders: just because
Windoze
exposes all the users to anyone walking by, does that mean Linux therefore
must do the same stupid thing?)
I'm sorry, I don't know what "Windoze" is, but there is a an operating
system called Windows that if you know how to administer correctly allows
for the Welcome Screen to be disabled or even certain users hidden from it.
Anyone else know how to turn off the user list on F13?
Not in Gnome:)